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London 2012 Olympic tickets: how to get yourself into the Olympic Park

Are you happy with what you got? On our live poll 45.48 per cent of you aren't. A big part of this may be that your tickets aren't on the Olympic Park.

For all the fun of going to see the beach volleyball at the Horse Guards Parade or the boxing at the ExCeL, the real buzz will be in Stratford at the Olympic Park. This is evident when you see how many tickets are left for volleyball at Earls Court. Minority sport + off-site venue = low interest.

It still may be a building site but already there's a special feeling as you see the progress being made at all the venues. Multiply that excitement by 100 come Games-time and one begins to understand why you're going to want to see an event here.

Second chance sales begin at 6am on Friday, June 24 for those who got no tickets, while the window for those who were successful opens on Friday, July 8. The catch is you can only apply for three sessions (and a maximum of six tickets for each one) – so you have to be smart with your applications.

So how do you get tickets to the park? The expensive, and unlikely, way is to try and snap up the few remaining athletics tickets.

According to Locog's guide there are five sessions – involving Usain Bolt and Jessica Ennis among others – with a 'good availability'. The only problem is price. The cheapest seats are £65 with the priciest coming in at £450. The other downside is that all but one session is early in the morning – which may take away some of the excitement.

How about women's basketball? There's 14 sessions with 'good' availability on sale for the 12,000 seater (and mighty impressive) Basketball Arena. This gets you to one of the best venues on the park and often for evening sessions. Team GB recently became the first British side to win a game at the European Championships so there may even be some flag-waving opportunities.

Next up is handball. Tickets are scarce at the 7,000-seater Handball Arena – described by David Cameron as a "great venue" when he visited this year – but it moves to the Basketball Arena to accommodate more fans for the knock-out games. The majority of 'good' availability tickets are for August 9 – with plenty of tickets across both women's semi-finals available (sessions HB039 and HB040).

The Hockey Centre, with its striking blue and pink pitch, should be the next venue on your radar.All along organisers have encouraged applicants to go for hockey. Last week they re-iterated the fact that, along with football, hockey had the most tickets available. If you're desperate to go to to an event then this is your 'sure thing'. There are tickets across every price range at nine sessions – mostly for women's games in the morning.

Finally, the synchronised swimming provides a glimmer of hope for those eager to experience the winged Aquatics Centre. There is 'good' avilability for 80 per cent of the sessions, with the duets final the best of the lot. These will go – so be quick.

One last word of warning. Of the 2.3 million tickets up for grabs in this ticketing phase, 1.7 million are for football. So don't get your hopes up to high.

UPDATE: There's no tickets left for sale to events on the Olympic Park in this ticketing window.